Our diversity commitments

Diversity and inclusion is a creative imperative for the BBC. We have pledged to hardwire diversity into everything we do, both internally and in the way we work with programme makers. We want the stories we tell and the people who make them to reflect the lives of all our audiences across the UK. To achieve this we must make a positive and lasting impact on diversity across the whole broadcast industry, as well as continue to prioritise this change ourselves.

To help achieve these ambitions we have committed to the following:

• Spend a minimum of £80 million per year of our commissioning budget across television and radio on content that meets our creative diversity criteria, with a focus on programmes where diverse portrayal, topics and storytelling on-air are aligned with strong representation in the company’s leadership and senior production roles
• Grow off-screen representation by asking all our producers to ensure 25% of their production team are from underrepresented groups and adopt our inclusive production principles to foster an inclusive culture in all our productions
• Improve the representation of deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people in Network television

Find further information about what we are doing and how we can help our producers to achieve this on the pages below.

Other requirements

We require all our suppliers to have a diversity and inclusion policy in place. A template for this is available on the Creative Diversity Network website. We also expect all content makers to adhere the BBC diversity commissioning code of practice and comply with current anti-discrimination and data protection legislation. Productions are encouraged to identify an individual within each production company to be responsible for delivering against their diversity objectives.

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